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Former County Treasurer Vivian Beckerle Entered the Race Against Jo Bonner

James Bullard, March 10, 2006

Former Mobile County treasurer Vivian Beckerle announced in March 2006 that she would seek the Democratic nomination for Congress in Alabama’s First District, challenging two-term Rep. Jo Bonner.

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Cotton, Shipyards and Brookley: One Mobilian’s Blunt Accounting of the City’s Fortunes

James Bullard, March 9, 2005

Mark Berson placed Mobile’s golden age between 1830 and 1860, traced its long decline through the loss of Brookley Field, and argued in 2005 that the city was poised to grow again.